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There was a time when Bitcoin was dismissed as the preserve of hoodie wearing anarchists and fringe actors and was misunderstood to be empowering the individual with financial anonymity. Today, it is monitored with such analytical precision that one could almost imagine His Majesties revenue & Customs (HMRC) preferring to audit the ledger itself rather […]
April 22, 2026
Further to my earlier post following the arrival of Mythos class AI capable of surfacing vulnerabilities and weaponising them by chaining them at machine speed. I would like to explore further and more explicitly how this has reset the baseline for organisational accountability and risk, whether this is acknowledged yet by some is only a […]
April 17, 2026
It feels a bit like we have crossed a cyber event horizon with the release of Anthropic’s latest Mythos AI, an LLM optimised for vulnerability detection. Much of the noise centres on whether it enables better hacking at machine speed, which I believe is a bit of a distraction from the practical impact. The more […]
April 13, 2026
The AI conversation has been dominated by model size, training breakthroughs and eye-watering infrastructure spend but I get a real sense that this is increasingly the wrong lens. For me the true battleground is not where AI is built, it is where it is used and that place is inference. Inference is where AI models […]
April 11, 2026
For most organisations and even those in the Cyber security industry itself, they still imagine their digital adversary as a system intruder. Firewalls are hardened, endpoints instrumented, identities wrapped in layers of conditional access and on and on … Yet the majority of losses are not coming from breached systems, they are flowing through human […]
April 3, 2026
As EY showcases its AI audit platform ‘Canvas’ in the Big 4 AI arms race, the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has barely had time to publish its first guidance on generative and agentic AI. I see a familiar tension emerging, innovation is accelerating faster than the mechanisms designed to trust it. As I have […]
March 29, 2026
As an extended thought exercise from my earlier piece on the digital risk from smart city infrastructure in kinetic warfare scenarios, Iran’s expanding use of cyber operations against such civilian infrastructure represents not merely validation of that hypothesis or even just an escalation in conflict but I believe also a profound erosion of moral boundaries […]
March 12, 2026
Are we building sovereign AI infrastructure that is legally controlled but operationally fragile? The current conversation around sovereign AI is dominated by a sensible instinct, keep the models, data and compute that underpin critical national capability within national jurisdiction. Governments want AI infrastructure they control, regulate and can trust. Nice and tidy for the pen […]
March 8, 2026
As an avid fitness enthusiast, the modern ability to access personal metabolic and activity data has fascinated me ever since I first began exploring it more than 25 years ago. Anyone else remember the bulky Garmin Forerunner 101? How things have changed since then. With nearly half a lifetime of training data, now enriched by […]
January 16, 2026
I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
December 9, 2025
An interesting question concerning the trustworthiness of technology, or perhaps more accurately those who control it, was raised out of my last missive, ‘Is Trust The Strategic Asset Democracy is Neglecting?’ that got me thinking. To start with let me lay that thinking out so you get the context, I am postulating that the defining […]
December 7, 2025
Following on the trust theme from my last missive – ‘How to Build a Dystopia – Start by Phoning HMRC About Your Neighbour’s‘, reflecting on modern democracies I perceive they are entering a period of structural stress. The issues are familiar, polarisation, disinformation, economic insecurity, failing services, collapsing faith in institutions, politicians putting party and […]
December 6, 2025
Once upon a time (or so we tell ourselves), reporting a suspicious neighbour to His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was pitched as some kind of civic virtue, help us catch tax dodgers, protect public coffers. On paper, a noble cause. In practice? The first step on a rickety road that leads straight into Orwell-land, […]
November 11, 2025
This week it was the turn of Cloudflare to have an outage enforcing a self-imposed denial of service on its customers that included OpenAI and Twitter. This follows AWS and Microsoft in recent weeks, events raising an increasingly urgent question – Do we now need a framework for Globally Systemically Important Technology Corporations, a G-SiTec […]
October 12, 2025
The weekends news has been full of the doom-mongers gurning at the AI boom or should we call it a bubble? Which got me thinkng, we have been here before have we not? When inflated expectations, fuelled by investor FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), surge to irrational heights before the inevitable correction. Then comes the […]
May 15, 2026
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